The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
BORIS PASTERNAK
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The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
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Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.
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If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
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You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.
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During the last years of Mayakovski’s life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.
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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.
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Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
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They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable.
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We’re all time’s captives, hostages to eternity.
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I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
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You are eternity’s hostage A captive of mine.
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To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
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